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Author: Stephen J. Collier
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9781400840427
Format: PDF, Docs
Pages : 312
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
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Post Soviet Social

by Stephen J. Collier, Post Soviet Social Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Post Soviet Social books, The Soviet Union created a unique form of urban modernity, developing institutions of social provisioning for hundreds of millions of people in small and medium-sized industrial cities spread across a vast territory. After the collapse of socialism these institutions were profoundly shaken--casualties, in the eyes of many observers, of market-oriented reforms associated with neoliberalism and the Washington Consensus. In Post-Soviet Social, Stephen Collier examines reform in Russia beyond the Washington Consensus. He turns attention from the noisy battles over stabilization and privatization during the 1990s to subsequent reforms that grapple with the mundane details of pipes, wires, bureaucratic routines, and budgetary formulas that made up the Soviet social state. Drawing on Michel Foucault's lectures from the late 1970s, Post-Soviet Social uses the Russian case to examine neoliberalism as a central form of political rationality in contemporary societies. The book's basic finding--that neoliberal reforms provide a justification for redistribution and social welfare, and may work to preserve the norms and forms of social modernity--lays the groundwork for a critical revision of conventional understandings of these topics.

Author: Judyth L. Twigg
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315290235
Format: PDF, Kindle
Pages : 344
Category : Education
Languages : en
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Social Capital And Social Cohesion In Post Soviet Russia

by Judyth L. Twigg, Social Capital And Social Cohesion In Post Soviet Russia Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Social Capital And Social Cohesion In Post Soviet Russia books, This work shows that the collapse of socialist employment and social service systems - and of the USSR itself - has had profoundly damaging effects, manifested in dislocation and homelessness, ethnic strife, family breakdown, declining life expectancy, and soaring rates of violence and crime.

Author: Andrea Friedli
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643802188
Format: PDF, ePub
Pages : 152
Category : Former Soviet republics
Languages : en
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Nation Building And Identities In Post Soviet Societies

by Andrea Friedli, Nation Building And Identities In Post Soviet Societies Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Nation Building And Identities In Post Soviet Societies books, Research by social scientists on multicultural and multilingual post-Soviet societies is manifold. However, there rarely exists a dialogue between academic fields, traditions and ideologies. This book critically reunites different academic generations and traditions, different disciplines, and different geographical and cultural backgrounds by keeping the plurality of the approaches. The contributions discuss the roles of ideologies, education, and ethnic, linguistic, and religious identities in the post-Soviet nation-building processes. The included case studies show continuities and discontinuities in the ideological and political aspects of nation-building and identity management in post-Soviet societies. (Series: Freiburg Studies in Social Anthropology / Freiburger Sozialanthropologische Studien, Vol. 47) [Subject: Social Anthropology, Sociology, Politics, Soviet Union]

Author: Klaus Segbers
Publisher:
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Pages : 735
Category : Former Soviet republics
Languages : en
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Post Soviet Puzzles Emerging Societal Actors Economic Social And Political Interests Theories Methods And Case Studies

by Klaus Segbers, Post Soviet Puzzles Emerging Societal Actors Economic Social And Political Interests Theories Methods And Case Studies Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Post Soviet Puzzles Emerging Societal Actors Economic Social And Political Interests Theories Methods And Case Studies books,

Author: Birgit Beumers
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134112394
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Pages : 264
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
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The Post Soviet Russian Media

by Birgit Beumers, The Post Soviet Russian Media Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download The Post Soviet Russian Media books, This book explores developments in the Russian mass media since the collapse of the USSR in 1991. Complementing and building upon its companion volume, Television and Culture in Putin's Russia: Remote Control, it traces the tensions resulting from the effective return to state-control under Putin of a mass media privatised and accorded its first, limited, taste of independence in the Yeltsin period. It surveys the key developments in Russian media since 1991, including the printed press, television and new media, and investigates the contradictions of the post-Soviet media market that have affected the development of the media sector in recent years. It analyses the impact of the Putin presidency, including the ways in which the media have constructed Putin’s image in order to consolidate his power and their role in securing his election victories in 2000 and 2004. It goes on to consider the status and function of journalism in post-Soviet Russia, discussing the conflict between market needs and those of censorship, the gulf that has arisen separating journalists from their audiences. The relationship between television and politics is examined, and also the role of television as entertainment, as well as its role in nation building and the projection of a national identity. Finally, it appraises the increasingly important role of new media and the internet. Overall, this book is a detailed investigation of the development of mass media in Russia since the end of Communism and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Author: Markku Lonkila
Publisher: Aleksanteri Institute
ISBN:
Format: PDF
Pages : 239
Category : Socialism and education
Languages : en
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Social Networks In Post Soviet Russia

by Markku Lonkila, Social Networks In Post Soviet Russia Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Social Networks In Post Soviet Russia books,

Author: Sarah Amsler
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039103294
Format: PDF, Kindle
Pages : 367
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
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Theorising Social Change In Post Soviet Countries

by Sarah Amsler, Theorising Social Change In Post Soviet Countries Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Theorising Social Change In Post Soviet Countries books, The book traces three main approaches to the sociology of post-Soviet societies: studies guided by neoliberal theory and/or practice; work which may be termed neoconservative in orientation, and which is often a response to the first; and a third type of work that is considered both critical and reflexive, and which seeks to transcend the limitations of the other approaches. The book is divided into three parts, addressing polity, culture and economy. In each section, authors endeavour to transcend both neoliberalism and neoconservatism, and reach for a third approach, 'critical social science'. This is a broad movement, and the authors vary in their own explanatory and normative ideas as they carve out frameworks that will enable them to develop a more rigorous and at the same time more comprehensive and critical understanding of social change.

Author: Michail Gorbatschow
Publisher: BASTEI LÜBBE
ISBN: 3732513777
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Pages : 560
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : de
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Das Neue Russland

by Michail Gorbatschow, Das Neue Russland Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Das Neue Russland books, Nach Jahren der Annäherung ist das Verhältnis zwischen Deutschland und Russland so angespannt wie seit mehr als 25 Jahren nicht mehr. Was Putin antreibt, warum er die Konfrontation mit dem Westen sucht und den Rückfall in den Kalten Krieg in Kauf nimmt, ist vielen ein Rätsel. Nicht Michail Gorbatschow. Mit einzigartiger Kennerschaft beschreibt er die Entstehung des "Systems Putin" und die Absichten dieses Mannes. Unverblümt rechnet er mit Putin ab. Dieser zerstöre um seiner eigenen Macht willen die Errungenschaften der Perestroika in Russland und errichte ein System ohne Zukunft. Deshalb fordert Gorbatschow ein neues politisches System für Russland, und er mahnt den Westen, nicht mit dem Feuer zu spielen. Ein wichtiges, ein notwendiges Buch, das neue Blickwinkel eröffnet - und das politische Vermächtnis des großen Mannes, der die deutsche Einheit mitermöglichte.

Author: Andrey Makarychev
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 149856240X
Format: PDF, ePub
Pages : 240
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
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Critical Biopolitics Of The Post Soviet

by Andrey Makarychev, Critical Biopolitics Of The Post Soviet Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Critical Biopolitics Of The Post Soviet books, This book is a critical attempt to cast a biopolitical gaze at the process of subjectification of Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and Estonia in terms of multiple and overlapping regimes of belonging, performativity, and (de)bordering. The authors strive to go beyond the traditional understandings of biopolitics as a set of policies corresponding to the management and regulation of (pre)existing populations. In their opinion, biopolitics might be part of nation building, a force that produces collective political identities grounded in the acceptance of sets of corporeal practices of control over human bodies and their physical existence. For the authors, to look critically at this biopolitical gaze on the realm of the post-Soviet means also to rethink the correlation between the biopolitical vision of the post-Soviet and the biopolitical epistemology on the post-Soviet, which would demand a new vocabulary. The critical biopolitics might be one of these vocabularies, which would fulfill this request.

Author: Linda J. Cook
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674828001
Format: PDF, Kindle
Pages : 272
Category : History
Languages : en
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The Soviet Social Contract And Why It Failed

by Linda J. Cook, The Soviet Social Contract And Why It Failed Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download The Soviet Social Contract And Why It Failed books, This book is the first critical assessment of the likelihood and implications of such a contract. Linda Cook pursues the idea from Brezhnev's day to our own, and considers the constraining effect it may have had on Gorbachev's attempts to liberalize the Soviet economy.